Author: Baxter

This article was first broadcast in Episode Twenty-Nine on 20th June 2018.
Lennon: Holy mother of Avandra, that stings… Are you nearly done
Ostron: Oh will you quit whining?! And hold still otherwise I can’t stitch it properly
Lennon: I nearly lost an arm to that allegedly juvenile dragon
Ryu: It was so pretty though. The way its scales glistened in the moonlight...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Twenty-Five on 23rd May 2018.
Lennon: Ahh, there you are! What’re you doing down here in the basement?
Ryu: Well, I’ve been flicking through Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, and I’ve gotta be honest I’m not sure I fancy our chances going up against those… things! Demons and devils, demogorgons and drow, it’s all gotten a little more dangerous.
Lennon: So you’re hiding down here with a blanket?
Ryu: What? NO! I just--
Ostron: Ryu?! Ryu?!
Lennon: I found her, she’s down here
Ostron: Ahh, there you are! What’re you doing down here in the basement?
Ryu: As I was just about to say to Lennon, I was just going through...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Twenty-Two on 2nd May 2018.
Boldan the Dragonslayer strode into the tavern; known throughout the land for his many heroic deeds, he had no shortage of tables offered to him. The tavern owner hurried over and asked, “Good master, whatever we can offer is yours! What would wish to dine on tonight?”
Graciously nodding to his host, he replied, “Uh, I don’t know. Food, I guess? I should probably drink something too…”
D&D is a game about heroes, villains, adventure, monsters, and magic. There can be so much epicness happening in a game it’s easy to...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Twenty on 18th April 2018.
Ryu: So yeah, that last time the Killer DM killed Ostron pretty much wiped us out. The Cleric upped his rates
Lennon: I told Ostron we’d have some gold for him because of the whole kidney thing
Ryu: Don’t worry, I’ve got it covered.
Not all characters are played in the same way. That’s sort of a given unless the same person is controlling all of them, but we’re mostly talking about how characters deal with their bank accounts. While some characters will be able to stockpile money, looking for the chance...

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Hello, this is Head Scribe Baxter, possibly better known as the “who” in “who the hell wrote this crap?!” for around half of the Short Rest segments. Last week, Len asked me to cover Gary-Con, a convention in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, celebrating the life of Gary Gygax and his role in creating D&D, not to mention the influence he’s had on the...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Thirteen on 28th February 2018.
“The battle had been hard-fought, but the necromancer’s tower now lay in ruins. On the morrow they would return to the queen to inform her the threat to her nation was ended, but tonight, they rested. Brother Elmont knew his companions had fared worse than he, and prepared their simple evening meal without being asked. It had taken the party twelve hours to win through and cast down the necromancer.
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This article was first broadcast in Episode Eleven on 14th February 2018.
Ryu: Hey Len, everything alright?
Lennon: Ehhhh, kinda. It’s Valentine’s day and I’ve still not managed to find anything for my wife. Even with my ukulele my Performance check would be a critical failure what with still recovering from the Ryuflu, and just in case the Ryuflu turns out to be lycanthropy, moonlit walks on the beach are probably best avoided...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Ten on 7th February 2018.
Lennon: Are you crazy!?
Ostron: Will you calm down and listen!
Ryu: Why is everyone yelling in here!?
Lennon: He has a silver sword
Ostron: It's a sword that LOOKS silver, it's not one of THOSE silver swords. Do I look like an idiot?
Lennon: Well you work on this show, don’t you?
Ryu: What am I missing here?
Ostron: I'm guessing a lot of history about the Githyanki
Whenever psionics comes up in D&D, three races are always brought up with it: the Mindflayers, Githyanki, and Githzerai. We're going to discuss the latter two. Fortunately the...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Nine on 20th January 2018.
Raerae: Huh, so this is what it looks like back here
Lennon: You mean you’ve never been backstage?
Raerae: Well I’m not usually on stage to go behind it
Ostron: Good point
Raerae: Oooh, is this where Ryu keeps that hat?
Ostron: Well, not quite, this is where we always go after the news for a Short Rest
Raerae: Gotchya. So, what do you do when you take a Short Rest?
Lennon: Oh, mainly we try and keep Ryu out of the Gnomish Workshop. Although the last couple of weeks we’ve been talking about the weather...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Seven on 10th January 2018.
Ostron: It’s raining bears and frogs out there
Lennon: Okay, the expression is cats and dogs and plate armor isn’t good in rain-
Ostron: I’m going to stop you right there - look out the window.
Weather: everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. To be fair, most people can’t do anything about it...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Four on 20th December, 2017.
Lennon: Hey Ryu, what’ve you got there?
Ryu: Oh this? It’s just a magic item I found in the Gnomish Workshop
Lennon: Looks like a santa hat. Hmm, let’s see the item card: Hat of the Killer DM. When equipping this hat, make a constitution saving throw (DC15). On a failed save, the wearer becomes the Killer DM for the remainder of the segment. You may repeat the saving throw once per round. This sounds cursed.
Ryu: I’m gonna put it on
Lennon: That doesn’t seem wise---ok, you did it anyway. Ok, make...

This article was first broadcast in Episode Two on 6th December, 2017.
“You did well in your scouting, Sir Fluffykins, though I could have used less detail about that mouse’s nest you found,” Aristobulus grinned at his familiar.
“Meow,” replied Sir Fluffykins wittily, because he was a cat and only had 3 intelligence.
5e’s Find Familiar is a useful spell, allowing a spellcaster to summon a magical animal companion to assist them in their adventuring, as well as letting the character partake in a fine storytelling and magical tradition going back millennia. However, while many literary familiars are intelligent and capable of speech,...

This article was first broadcast in Episode One on November 29th, 2017.
Lennon: So, you’ll have to forgive me. As a Brit, we don’t have “Thanksgiving” over here, so I’m not really familiar with it. When “Thanksgiving” comes up, what do you think of?
Ryu: Druids!
Ostron: Aarakocra!
Lennon: I’ve got to be honest, that doesn’t seem quite right, but who am I to argue? I guess we’ll talk about Aarakocran Druids then...